Re: [PATCH v1 8/8] perf/x86: Add event owner check when PEBS output to Intel PT

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 07:11:17PM -0400, Luwei Kang wrote:
> For PEBS output to Intel PT, a Intel PT event should be the group
> leader of an PEBS counter event in host. For Intel PT
> virtualization enabling in KVM guest, the PT facilities will be
> passthrough to guest and do not allocate PT event from host perf
> event framework. This is different with PMU virtualization.
> 
> Intel new hardware feature that can make PEBS enabled in KVM guest
> by output PEBS records to Intel PT buffer. KVM need to allocate
> a event counter for this PEBS event without Intel PT event leader.
> 
> This patch add event owner check for PEBS output to PT event that
> only non-kernel event need group leader(PT).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/events/core.c     | 3 ++-
>  include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
>  kernel/events/core.c       | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
> index 7b21455..214041a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
> @@ -1014,7 +1014,8 @@ static int collect_events(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, struct perf_event *leader,
>  		 * away, the group was broken down and this singleton event
>  		 * can't schedule any more.
>  		 */
> -		if (is_pebs_pt(leader) && !leader->aux_event)
> +		if (is_pebs_pt(leader) && !leader->aux_event &&
> +					!is_kernel_event(leader))

indent fail, but also, I'm not sure I buy this.

Surely pt-on-kvm has a perf event to claim PT for the vCPU context?

Even if not, this is not strictly correct. Not even now is KVM the sole
user of perf_event_create_kernel_counter(), so saying any kernel event
is excempt from this scheduling constraint is jsut wrong.

>  			return -EINVAL;
>  
>  		/*